The film begins with a spaceship’s crash landing on a planet, this planet being the
earth in the old ages.
The collision shocks the area’s wildlife, and the ship ends up landing in the middle
of a lake.
Two humanoid figures in advanced spacesuits emerge from the impact.
One of them helps his companion get out of the water, and as he passes out, he has brief
flashbacks of the past.
Upon awakening, the spaceman realizes that his companion has died of a severe chest wound.
In the distance, he hears a robotic call, being a computer stranded in the lake.
The man saves the machine and asks in an unknown language for information about the planet
they landed on.
He also asks about the whereabouts of other ships, but the computer tells him that there
are no records of nearby ships.
After his disappointment, the man prepares for the computer to download and transfer
to him a series of data about the planet, its civilization, species, languages, and
culture, something difficult and painful for the man to assimilate.
After that, he seems to gain a second breeze and practices his aim with a destructive gun
that managed to survive the collision.
At nightfall, he makes a grave for his fallen colleague.
The outlander’s new mission is to survive the unknown area, a vast forest, using only
his gun.
In the search, he finds the lifeless body of a whale next to a destroyed and abandoned
village with signs of an attack by something other than a human.
Noticing that he is being observed, the outlander flees, but is intercepted by a horse rider
who knocks him unconscious and causes his weapon to get lost in the river.
While passed out, the outlander is taken hostage to a nearby Viking village that is surrounded
by a wooden wall.
In a great hall, young Freya and her father, King Rothgar, have a sword fight.
Freya tells her father that she will not marry her suitor Wulfric, a pretender to the king’s
throne.
The battle concludes when Freya’s father cuts her shoulder, so he decides to heal her.
Wulfric shows up, but his pedantic attitude only makes Freya dislike him and leave.
Rothgar and Wulfric talk about how a nearby village was destroyed, and Wulfric tells him
that on their inspection, they managed to capture a man, but he apparently doesn’t
belong to any known village.
Their hostage, the spaceman, is displayed in front of the villagers, amazed and mocked
by his clothing.
Wulfric takes the man to a hut for questioning.
He asks the outlander his name, and he says his name is Keinan.
Keinan lies to them, saying that he is from an island in the north and is actually there
hunting dragons, but the men don’t believe him and think it was him who attacked the
nearby village.
Keinan tries to escape, but the Vikings are too strong for him.
After being held, Keinan tries to escape using a burning iron bar, but just before he succeeds,
Freya appears to attend to him, as Wulfric requested.
Rothgar asks Wulfric about the outlander at dusk, but Wulfric tells him that he refuses
to cooperate.
Rothgar tells him that Gunnar, the chief of the destroyed village, must be sought out
and explained that they were not the ones who attacked him.
Wulfric hesitates about this, as he has a grudge against Gunnar for killing his father,
the former king of the village, but Rothgar explains that this was because his father
was reckless, and he does not want the same fate for him.
Back to Freya and Keinan, she asks him if he was the one who attacked the village, but
he denies it.
Before proceeding, Keinan breaks free attacks Freya and his guard, trouncing him.
Keinan tries to flee in the middle of the night, and his plan would have worked, except
for the alarms starting to sound and announcing an enemy attack.
All the Vikings rush into action, thinking it’s Gunnar taking revenge.
They are surprised to see no one outside, only to realize that the enemy is already
inside the village.
An unknown enemy starts a killing and burning spree, a tentacled creature hiding in the
stables.
Keinan starts chasing the beast, but his guard starts chasing him.
The guard is later killed by the mysterious monster, who carries him to the edge of the
wooden wall.
Keinan calls the creature ‘Moorwen,’ the real ‘dragon’ he was looking for.
Before going for it, the Vikings find Keinan, only to tie him to a rock.
There, Keinan has flashbacks of Moorwen attacking his world and him lamenting the loss of his
people.
The next day, a poor village boy offers some bread to Keinan, who accepts with suspicion.
The village men try to find out who might have caused last night’s invasion.
They take Keinan to Rothgar, asking him about the supposed ‘dragon’ he is hunting.
Keinan explains to them that the so-called Moorwen also attacked his people and that
it lures beings with lights and then murders them.
He confesses that he brought the Moorwen to the village, but just before Keinan is executed,
Rothgar intercedes for him, claiming that he doesn’t quite believe his story.
Keinan understands that they will hunt Moorwen, so he asks Rothgar to go with them.
The Vikings give him a horse and Freya a punch for the earlier attack, and it is then that
they leave the village to look for the beast.
A smith named Boromir offers Keinan some mead, but Keinan spits it out.
Rothgar strikes up a conversation with Keinan, and he tells the king that if they don’t
stop Moorwen, the village will have the same fate as his home.
Wulfric announces several corpses in the area and proposes to form expedition groups, but
Keinan does not consider this plan viable, considering it better to stay together.
Still, Rothgar prefers to go in pairs.
While investigating, a severed horse’s head falls from the heights to Rothgar and Boromir.
Another couple finds charred corpses outside a cave, and soon they find something dangerous.
After hearing the screams of terror from the couple in the cave, they all congregate to
go inside.
They find a bear and start a fight, defeating it not without some resistance.
During the struggling, Keinan delivers the final blow with his sword.
Rothgar decides to spare Keinan’s life after defeating the bear, granting him his freedom.
The village celebrates the victory over the bear with a feast.
Amid the celebration, Keinan appears again, only this time in the people’s own clothing.
To his surprise, everyone welcomes him warmly, and he goes to eat with Rothgar.
At dinner, the boy who gave Keinan bread appears, and Keinan decides to return the favor by
lending him the mighty sword that killed the bear, on the condition that he should tell
him his name, to which the boy only replies ‘Erik.’
Rothgar explains to Keinan that Erik’s parents died, and they are taking care of him.
Wulfric decides to start a game called ‘Shields’ and challenges Keinan.
Several men make a square course using only their shields, and the competitors must climb
on them and then grope their way forward.
After a series of pirouettes, Keinan falls on Boromir, but Wulfric, far from mocking,
helps him up, now trusting him more as the people cheer their new member.
After leaving the great hall, Keinan meets Freya, who thanks him for helping her father
on the expedition.
Keinan explains to Freya that it was not the bear who killed her people, but the Moorwen,
and that it will return anytime.
Suddenly, Gunnar’s Viking group begins an enemy attack, bursting into the village.
There is a clash of swords between the two sides, with Keinan and Freya killing a couple
of enemies each.
Rothgar encounters Gunnar, who charges at him, knocking the king to the ground.
Before killing him, Keinan appears to save Rothgar, but just as Gunnar was pulling himself
together to counterattack, his men tackle him and take him away, claiming they have
lost and it is time for a retreat.
Gunnar’s group leaves, but not without Gunnar cursing Rothgar, accusing him of being the
murderer of his family and people.
The village tries to recover after the attack, and Freya explains to Keinan who Gunnar is.
Years ago, Wulfric’s father wanted to gather all the villages to plan an attack on the
Franks, but Gunnar did not show up, feeling this as a betrayal, so both villages have
reason to hate each other.
Gunnar’s group plans on their subsequent attacks on Wulfric and his people.
One of them breaks away from the group to pee, and he’s attacked by the hiding Moorwen
in the lake.
Gunnar’s men begin to fall one by one, believing it to be a surprise attack by Wulfric.
Gunnar is left alone in front of the beast, deciding to attack it without fear.
In the village, some of Gunnar’s men appear screaming and surrendering, wanting to go
in so as not to die.
However, Wulfric thinks it’s a trap, so he prepares his archers to shoot.
Among the men appears Gunnar, who survived the Moorwen and now calls for help.
The archers fire, killing some men except Gunnar.
Keinan asks them to stop shooting, and after this, he opens the village’s gates for the
enemies to enter.
Just as Wulfric is about to hit Gunnar, everyone sees a series of blue lights catching a man
in the forest and then devouring him.
The blue lights turn red, revealing the wild Moorwen, who escapes into the woods.
Now everyone knows of the creature’s existence.
There’s friction between Wulfric and Gunnar in the great hall, with the latter claiming
that hitting Moorwen was like hitting a stone wall.
Keinan tells them that fighting the Moorwen in open fields is impossible, so they must
devise a trap.
Wulfric doesn’t trust the plan and says that Keinan isn’t one of them, so they shouldn’t
listen to him.
However, Keinan lashes out, saying that Wulfric is wrong just as he was about the supposed
attacks by the bear and Gunnar.
The two try to fight, but Rothgar separates them.
The king favors Keinan’s plan and says that what he advises will be done.
The next day they decide to build a trap at the village’s entrance, and Keinan requests
flammable materials for some reason.
They dig a pit several meters deep, which they hide as if it were just another hut.
Inside, several poles are driven into the ground, filled with various oils.
After everything is set, Rothgar offers Keinan a position in the village, making him one
of his own.
Meanwhile, one of last night’s victims wakes up surrounded by corpses, only to be finished
off by Moorwen.
In Freya’s hut, she and Keinan share a bowl of stew, and that’s when Keinan has something
to confess.
His people, Keinan’s society, are actually conquerors of worlds.
Upon arriving in Moorwen’s territory, they wiped out its kind with bombs.
The remaining Moorwens were hunted down to have dominion over the place.
Turns out that Keinan was part of a group of space colonizers, and in exchange for being
able to eradicate the Moonwers’ life, he and his family were given a place on the planet
where they could reside.
Some time after the conquest, Keinan had to leave for a new mission, but there he learned
that one of the Moonwers had survived and was hiding in the ship’s ventilation, the
same Moonwer that killed the remaining population.
Keinan blames himself for that slip-up, but Freya tells him that he shouldn’t be so
hard on himself.
Likewise, she gives him her family’s sword to fight better.
They all prepare for the trap, now with Gunnar’s help.
The warriors open the doors, and Wulfric and Keinan go outside, waiting for the beast to
appear.
They couldn’t see much, and since nothing was happening, Keinan throws a torch into
the forest, only to realize that the Moonwer is right in front of them.
Out of nowhere, the village priest appears praying for the beast to leave, alleging it
is a Lucifer’s emissary.
He’s killed on the spot brutally, so Keinan and Wulfric start to run, passing the water
trap and using the shields as a platform to escape to the other side.
Still, Wulfric falls into the water next to the beast.
To make matters worse, the warriors close the doors, leaving the two inside.
Just before the archers unload their flaming arrows, Keinan offers Wulfric help by trying
to hold him through an outside hatch and manages to rescue him in time to avoid the explosion.
While everyone is surprised by the explosion, a new, smaller Moonwer appears from behind,
in the area where the women are hiding.
To protect everyone, Freya decides to attack.
Her father comes to the rescue, but a brief struggle against the beast leaves him helpless.
As if that weren’t enough, the first Moonwer reappears from the fire, angrier than ever.
Wulfric and Keinan decide to attack together, but they are no match for the monster.
Gunnar chooses to help, but he’s decapitated in a flash by the first Moonwer, who then
flees.
Erik appears to tell Keinan that there is a second Moonwer, so they run to help Freya.
Unfortunately, she is found holding her father’s lifeless body, who perished in the battle.
The whole village leaves the following day, fearing another attack.
Erik tells Keinan that he wants to stay with him in the village, but Keinan tells him that
the place is no longer safe, so he has to leave with the others on the boats.
He promises the boy that they will see each other again and then say goodbye.
Keinan meets Wulfric, although the latter is depressed by the outcome, to the point
where he does not feel worthy of the reign, Keinan tells him that they must fight the
monster together.
They both enlist a small group of men to go down the common well.
Although the idea is crazy, it’s the only way to find the Moonwers’ hideout.
Keinan asks Boromir for new weapons, this time with more substantial materials that
he will bring.
Keinan goes with Freya and Wulfric to the lake where his ship crashed to recover some
materials by diving down.
While he manages to bring some things up, Keinan is surprised by a Moonwer under the
lake.
When he gets to the surface, he sees that the boat they were in was destroyed, only
finding Wulfric, but with no trace of Freya.
Boromir manages to forge a new sword, larger and stronger than any other.
Already prepared, Keinan goes down the well until he finds a subway grotto.
He waits for the others, and they begin to advance.
Freya wakes up terrified, finding herself in the monsters’ nest of corpses.
As she tries to flee, one of the beasts finds her.
Before attacking, the beast detects intruders, so it abandons Freya to go after them.
Keinan’s group ends up in a cave with access to a lava floor.
Soon they are attacked, managing to find the Moonwers’ lair and wounding the smallest
specimen, but with heavy casualties, including Boromir’s death.
Freya manages to get up, and they call out to each other.
Just before entering a dark place, Freya detects danger, and the wounded Moonwer appears, unable
to see her and now helped only by sound.
When they find each other, both the men and Freya make enough sound for the beast to attack,
and Freya barely has enough time to dodge the smash.
To get to her friends, Freya has to pass through a hole, but it is too small for her, so with
no other choice and in a desperate act, they give the sword to Freya, who kills the monster
on the spot.
They get together, but far from having a warm reunion, they all look horrified at the amount
of corpses in the cave.
When they heard that something was approaching, they leave, and the last Moonwer sees its
son’s corpse, going berserker against the warriors.
They all reach the end of a waterfall on a mountain next to a cliff.
They try to escape, but the walls are too slippery to climb.
Still, they try to do it, but Freya falls to be rescued by Keinan.
Meanwhile, Wulfric is attacked by the older Moonwer, and in a desperate act, he manages
to wound him in the face.
Freya remains stable, but the Moonwer throws Wulfric’s corpse towards Keinan, leaving
him alone in the fight.
He re-enters the cave with his sword and manages to cut a tentacle of the beast, although he
doesn’t hit it directly.
Following the trail of blood, Keinan stumbles throughout, and just before being attacked
by the beast behind his back, Freya appears attacking the beast, giving Keinan the perfect
moment to lunge.
However, the beast manages to drag him to the edge of the cliff, and while Freya holds
Keinan, he is pinned down by the Moonwer.
After struggling, Keinan gets his sword and cuts off the beast’s hand, so it falls into
the void.
They both return to the dying Wulfric, who asks if the beast is finally dead.
They confirm it.
Wulfric offers Keinan the medallion that makes him king, regretting not having established
a good friendship with him.
Keinan corrects Wulfric, telling him that they are friends, and that’s when he dies.
Keinan and Freya climb up the cliff, finding Erik and the rest of the village in the boats
down in the distance.
The two share a kiss, but despite everything, Keinan says goodbye to Freya, telling her
he has something else to do.
She worries because she knows Keinan may never return.
He actually goes back to his ship’s wreckage, revealing that his wife was in suspended animation
during the trip and that after the crash, her capsule ruptured, killing her.
Keinan says goodbye and returns to his computer, which signals his comrades to pass by looking
for him.
Freya watches from the bushes as Keinan destroys the computer, leaving his only chance to return
home.
In the epilogue, Freya narrates how Wulfric and Rothgar are buried, giving the highest
Viking honors for their worthiness to them, and that Keinan, once a stranger to the people,
became their new king, with Freya becoming his new wife and Erik, his adopted son.
Freya concludes with the sacrifice Keinan made, of how he was sent by the gods, but
at the time of his retreat, decided to stay with them.